Melbourne woman disgusted no one else stopped racist train abuse

A Melbourne woman who recorded an alleged verbal racist attack on a fellow train passenger is "disgusted" that no one stepped in to stop the abuse.

Ange Lawther was riding the train from Croydon to Melbourne yesterday when she stood up to a belligerent man who was allegedly racially abusing another passenger, the Herald Sun reports.

The footage of the incident only shows the man abusing a second passenger, after he had already ordered a man of Indian appearance to "f—k off", said Ms Lawther.

Ms Lawther, 46, said the 'Indian man' had boarded the train and asked a man wearing a red flannelette shirt and black beanie to make room so he could sit down.

"Then [the man wearing the flannelette shirt] started swearing and racially abusing the guy saying, 'you come here take all our jobs now you want to take my seat' and other crap like that," said Ms Lawther.

Ms Lawther said that was when she "stood up for the man being abused and told the other man to shut up."

At this point Ms Lawther's recording begins, as the man takes offence at another passenger smiling and turns the verbal abuse towards him.